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Faculty and students at institutions of higher learning have always been engaged in the issues of their times. They have often played an important galvanizing and sometimes game-changing role in their societies’ demands for equity, equality, and social and political justice. They have done so bo..

`Exploring an Agenda for Active Citizenship`

First Annual Conference

A conference co-sponsored by the Arab Studies Institute and the Asfari Institute

Date and Time: 8am Friday 20 February through 5:30pm Sunday 22 February

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The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship in issuing a call for submissons to its first Art Competition. Artwork should be inspired by social movements, urpsiings, struggles for human rights, and citizens engagement, inlcusive of hope and defeat, in all their forms. 

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The American University of Beirut’s Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship

In collaboration with the Arab Studies Institute and George Mason University

First Annual Conference:  Exploring an Agenda for Active C..

[This post has been updated to include videos from the inaugural conference. They are embedded below the introduction.]

Introduction

Founded in November 2012, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut (AUB) held its in..

Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship presents

The Asfari Institute Inaugural Conference on Civic Participation and Citizenship:

New Spaces of Civil Society Activism in the Arab World

The Asfari Institute for Civi..

The American University of Beirut (AUB) invites applications and nominations for the position of founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship.

The Asfari Institute will serve as a regional hub of academics, practitioners and policy makers who will e..